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(No Model.)

E., W. & T. W. HAZLEHURST & J. WOLSTENHOLME. BOTTLE STOPPER.

No. 415,507. Patented Nov. 19, 1889.

FIELZ- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EnwARD ni'xztnnt'as'r, wiLLIAM nAZ'LEnURsT, THOMAS WILLIAM nAzLE- HURs'r, AND JAMEs woLsTENHomiE, or (L1nn\1\1.,coUN'rY OF LANcAs- TER, ENGLAND.

BOTTLE-STOPPER.

SPECIFICATION forming' part of Letters Patent No. 415,507, dated November 19, 1889. Application filed March 27, 1889. Serial No. 304,976. (No model.) Patcnted in England October 20, 1884, No. 13,842.

To all whom, it may conci'n: In the drawings, a represents the neck of leitknown that we, EDWARD HAZLEHURST, a bottle, within which is an annular seat or (book-keeper,) YILLIAM IIAZLEHURST, (joingasket Z) of yielding material, as rubber, incr,) and THOMAS VILLIAM HAZLEHURST, (inserted in a groove in the inner surface of the surance agent,) all of St. Thomas Street, neck. (north,) Oldhain, and J AMES TOLSTENHOLM c represents the stopper, which lis a sphere (rate collector,) of 21 Coppice Street, Terof glass or other suitable material, the seat b neth, Oldhain, Lancaster county, England, being forlned to lit the stopper, as shown in have invented certain new and useful Iin- Fig. 2.

io provenients in lottle-Stoppers, (for which we (Z represents the bail or holding device,

have obtained a patent in Great Britain` No. which is a stout strip of metal, preferably 13,8at2, bear-ing (late OctoberQO, 188i) of which iron oi' steel, bent to form an arched top 2 the following is a specification. and substantially straight sides 3 8, on the This invention relates to bottle-stoppers ends of which are forined inwardly-project- 15 coinposedofaballorsphericalstopperpressed ing trunnions or pivots 4 4, which engage against a rubber seatin the neck of a bottle with pockets 5 5, formed in the sides of the by a yoke or bail which is pivoted to the exbottle-neck. The arms orsides33 are adapted terior of the neck of the bottle. to be sprung` outwardly to enable the trun- The invention has for its object to provide nions 4 4: to spring into the pockets 5 5; but

zo an improved bail or holder for the spherical the metal of the bail is so thick and is of such stopper; and to this end it consists in a bail teinper that a considerable degree of force is 7o coinposed of a stout rigid strip of metal bent required to spring said arms apart, so that into an arch and havingits extremities pointed the bail cannot be easily detached from the and turned inwardly to serve as trunnions, bot-tle-neck, the force required being greater z 5 which are inserted in depressions or pockets than could be exerted on the stopper by pressformed in the exterior of the neck of the boture within the bottle. The arched top of the tle, the yoke being slightly elastic, so that bail is increased in width at its central porsaid trunnions can be sprung apart preparation and there provided with an orifice f. tory to entering the pockets, but not su'ffi- The edges of said orifice bear upon the spheri- 30 ciently yielding to perinit the trunnions to cal stopper when the bail is in operative pobe sprnng out of the pockets, excepting unsition, the highest part of the stopper project- So less a considerable force is exerted, so that ing into the orifice and being above the edges the yoke retains itself in engagement with that bear on the stopper, as shown in Fig. 2, so the bottle-neck without the aid of a band oi' that the bail and stopper are sufficiently inter- 3 5 ring encircling said ncck. The central part locked to preventthebailfromslippingofffrom of the yoke is provided with an orifice, the the stopper until su'fficient lateral pressure is edges of which constitutc seats which bear exerted on the bail to depress the stopper and on the spherical stopper and hold the yoke in perniit the bail to pass over its highest part, engageinent therewith, all of which we will the seat byielding to permit such depression.

40 now proceed to describe and claiin. Then the bail is moved to place on the stop- Of the accoinpanying drawings, forining a per, it p resses the lat-ter downwardly into the part of this specification, Figure 1 represents yielding seat l) until its orifice is directly a side view of the necl; of abottle having our over the stopper. The expansion of the seat improved stopper. 2 represents a section then causes the highest part of the stopper 45 on line a: Fig. 1. Fig. 3 represents a perto projectinto said orifice, as above described.

spective view of the bail detached from the lt will be seen that the stout and but bottle. slightly-fiexible bail having the trnnnions The Same letters of reference indicate the and the central orifice holds itself in engagesame parts in all the figures. ment with the neck of the bottle, and is held in engagement with the stopper by the expansion of the seat forcing' the stopper into said orifice.

Instead of having the orfiee f, the bail-top may have a cavity formed in its under side for the same purpose.

Te are aware thata spherical stopper bearing on a yelding seat within the neck of a bottle is not new. Ve are also aware that Wire bails or stopperho1ders have been provided With inWa-rdly-bent ends which enter pockets in the sides of a bottle-neck, and We do not, therefore, olaim the spherical stopper and the yielding seat therefor 5 nor do we elai m, broadly, a stopper-holding` bail having ends which are sprung' into soekets in the bottle; bnt

Vhat we do elaim is- The combination of a bottle having,` pockets 5 5 in the exterior of its neck and a yielding' seat b within its neck, a spherieal stopper fitting said seat, and the improvedostopper-holding bail composed of a single comparatively stiff piece of metal bent to form av top 2, having a central orifice or cavity, and sides 3 3, having trunnions 4 4, which are sprung into the pockets 5' 5, said orifiee or cavity being formed to receive the highest portion of the stopper, Whereby the stopper and bail are nterlooked, as set forth.

In testimony whereof We have signed onr names to this speeification,in the presenee of two snbseribing witnesses, this 26th day of February, A. D. 1889.

' EDWARD HAZLEHURST.

WILLIAM HAZLEHURST. THOMAS WILLIAM HAZLEH'URST. J AMES WOLSTENI'IOLME. *itness es: ARTHUR E. HALL,

ALBERT E. HALL, H

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